My first Reef - 75g

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Okay...so I've only been at this for about 7 months, but I'm pretty excited about how everything has gone so far. My first reef is a 75 gallon tank (which will soon be upgraded to a 220...Santa has been very nice already!). Here are some pics from a few months back.

This is my tank back several months ago.

Some of the corals and livestock...

This is my original skimmer...I've upgraded since then.

 

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Unfortunately, we had a major power outage that killed almost all my fish and a few corals. Which made way for a rebuild...

 

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Here is the tank today...

 

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Please notice the LED upgrade from the T5s in the previous pics. I scored a really good deal on these a couple of weeks ago.

 

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Here are some of the new additions along with some of the survivors.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Looking great bro!

 

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One of the newest additions has been a black sebae clown and his anemone that is pretty much only found within our local reef club (Go Richmond Reefers!!). It came in on a piece of live rock as a hitchhiker and we haven't seen it anywhere else. It's purple with green tips.

Of course, the sebae also likes my RBTA... He spends his days swimming back and forth between these two anemones...


He'll have his work cut out for him now because both the RBTA and the Purple with Green tips (PwGtA) just split last week...so now I have 3 RBTAs and 2 PwGtAs.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Looking great bro!

Thanks! :bigsmile: I'm loving this hobby!!

 

[rewlee]

really like the tank, lot going on. really like that nem as well. What is the black and white strip fish? blurry, guess butterfly? also do you have 3 clowns? I always heard the 3rd would be bullied, not sure if I know what I am talking about here, but i thought clowns where aggressive.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

really like the tank, lot going on. really like that nem as well. What is the black and white strip fish? blurry, guess butterfly? also do you have 3 clowns? I always heard the 3rd would be bullied, not sure if I know what I am talking about here, but i thought clowns where aggressive.

Thanks! The black and white striped fish is a bangaii cardinal. You also definitely do see 3 clowns in there. I read up on adding the third and got mixed reviews. Since the clown and then nem came as a packaged deal, I decided to try it. All 3 clowns are getting along "swimmingly". No fighting in here.

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[revsgirl]

Lookin' good!! 1smile1

 

[MarvinsReef]

very nice BTA... purple with green tips. 1smile1

 

[Saltwatercoral]

Good to hear that the clowns are getting along! Great looking RBTA!

 

[rewlee]

Here are some of the new additions along with some of the survivors.

Not the Cardinal, the Black and white stripped fish with the yellow belly, to the top right of the yellow tang.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Not the Cardinal, the Black and white stripped fish with the yellow belly, to the top right of the yellow tang.

Ahh.. Sorry about the confusion. That's a sailfin tang.

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[SeahorseKeeper]

I love the purple with green tips nem!